Week 1:
My Article
In this article it talks about Donald Trump's campaign and how surprising and unpredictable it was. During Trumps campaign he consistently talks about how the system was rigged and that media was biased towards Hillary Clinton. In the article it shows that most Republicans believe that the election is rigged and that Hillary Clinton was somehow cheating the system. However most democrats think that the system was fair and just. That nothing was biased for Hillary Clinton. Since Trump was very connected with his social media, he could speak to all of his followers at once and talk to them about the unjust voting system and biased news. As it says in the article, "Rather than accepting the results of a rigged campaign or letting their loss of faith in the political system keep them home, Trump’s supporters (we suspect especially in rural communities) turned out to express their anger by voting against the establishment." The article then goes on to say that continuously complaining about the fraudulent system was more strategic and effective for Trump than most people originally thought.
This relates to our Ap Gov class because it talks about Voter participation and that when Trump's supporters believed that the system was fraudulent they continued to vote. Since most of Trump's supporters were from more rural cities they were more inclined to have most of the same opinions on subjects and this could be why more people from rural cities voted for Trump.
Personally I feel that during the campaign, the system wasn't rigged but I think it would be very easy for someone to think so. The only reason that the media was so targeted on Trump because he was always saying or doing something stupid. Since his supporters continued to think it was ok for him to say stupid things and get in the news a lot Trump decided to make them all think that he wasn't on the news for doing something wrong but because it was "biased." Whether or not the news was biased or not I think someone that could be the president of the United States should be able to control what he says on tv.